[AusNOG] Business Router

[Gary Buckmaster]

+1 on the pfSense suggestion

Disclosure: I worked with the pfSense project for several years and I
know those guys very well.

It's a FreeBSD based distribution and rolls a lot of really useful
functionality into a easy-to-use interface.  Keep in mind, however, that
its still software running on a general purpose CPU; the ability to
forward lots of packets becomes an issue as you scale upwards and the
resources you need to support some of the functions means you may need a
fairly powerful machine (or machines for a CARP cluster).

Its still worth a look, especially if you're comparing the SRX devices
and the pfSense commercial support guys are exceptionally good.

Best,

Gary

On 5/17/2012 11:00 PM, Jake Anderson wrote:
> Have you looked at things like pfsense?
> more than one fortune 500 is using it.
> http://www.pfsense.org/
> 
> multi-wan can be a little fiddly to setup but it'll turn any machine you
> have laying about the place into a firewall with all the bells and
> whistles.
> And you can set them up with CARP for active failover etc all for the
> low low price of free ;->.
> (assuming (like your boss presumably does) your time has a value of 0,
> but then you probably need to learn whatever other system you get anyway)
> 
> Hit me up if you would like a hand with it.
> 
> 
> On 17/05/12 11:27, Jason Firmino wrote:
>> Hey noggers,
>>
>> I'm working in a company that has just reached 600 users in our
>> network infrastructure. We are having some issues with our router
>> (Draytek - Vigor 3200 Series). He's not handling well the bandwidth of
>> the 3 x 10Mb links we have, and we are scheduled for a 100Mb link next
>> week.
>>
>> However the problem is that the we are short on funds for IT.
>>
>> So, with that, what kind of router do you noggers recommend for a
>> medium company with 600 users that can support up to 5 links delivered
>> trough ethernet.
>>
>> Cheers to all,
> 
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